Help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticized sometime in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the McCain portion of the amendment.
Gorsuch suggested a signing statement to protect the administration from future criticism on interrogation policies.
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In our times, the jury trial has given way to a conveyor belt of plea bargains.
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